I am being admitted to practice as a lawyer tomorrow and I can’t quite believe it!

The past 30 years of Anglo Australian history in a nutshell.

Me dodging pollen and plane tree spores as I run to the train station to get home before the cyclogenesis arrives

Finally checked out that ABC Best Books of 21st Century list and seeing A Little Life at no. 9 has sent me incandescent with rage

So who is the billionaire who bankrolled and ordered this very professional Louvre job?

Me talking about Brunswick to literally anybody who will listen

Genuinely perfect day in Melbourne today. Almost home to bask in the early evening sun on my balcony. 11/10 no notes

There's loads of capital L literature written by people who aren't "straight white (often older) men" and it's weird that people feel the need to pretend otherwise

Great to see Apple TV+ rebranding to Apple TV described as “a vibrant new identity”. variety.com/2025/tv/news...

Don't make me tap the Robert Pattinson quote, Leto.

Erm who wants to go to Adelaide with me to watch Isabelle Huppert take to the stage as Mary Queen of Scots??!!

RIP Diane Keaton, among other things, director of one episode of #TwinPeaks.

Exciting to see a new local cinema coming to Brunswick, from the Thornbury Picture House folks. Hot on the heels of Collingwood's Eclipse Cinemas opening. Are single-screen venues the future of inner-city filmgoing? www.brunswickpicturehouse.com.au/brunswick-pi...

I hereby declare Montenegro Spritz season is OPEN 🌸

This is so good, I love this man so much

If only there were a French expression to denote an uncanny feeling of having experienced something before

TIL Luca Guadagnino’s sister lives in Sydney

Luca Guadagnino’s After the Hunt is a compelling drama about how everybody at Yale, associated with Yale or Yale adjacent is an awful person. (Except the dry gay man who is the dean of humanities)

While I’ve since seen SPEED a number of times theatrically, my first time was at home when it premiered on HBO in May of 1995 and nothing could’ve primed me better for it than the old HBO First Look featurette hosted by Dennis Hopper himself.

TIL the CEO of Electronic Arts is Australian.

God I wish I was living my best life on an “off-the-grid hiking foray“. www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Metro Tunnel opening early December. Christmas season is Gunzel season this year 🚊

on.ft.com/46M9mXI Why designers abandoned their dreams of changing the world. Free to Read.

"We might even think of the thesis, as Eco envisions it, as a formal version of the open-mindedness, care, rigor, and gusto with which we should greet every new day."

Saw an ABC Melb clip of Charlie Hunnam hating Melbourne coffee, a couple of weeks after John Cena said it was great. I hate to say it but there’s clearly a TREND of entertainment journalists asking every visiting celebrity for their thoughts on our coffee 😭

God I can’t believe I have strong opinions about this but I DO - charli xcx’s sympathy is a knife is obviously an honest account of her own insecurity and T Swift’s attempt to frame it as an attack on her feels like pure bullying!

Reminiscing about the concrete splendour of the old Greater Union Russell St. That place was like a proper temple to cinema. Missing it! 🥲

Jean Paul Sartre : world's frenchest man

Str8 couple having an argument on a packed otherwise silent peak hour tram this is soooo awkies

Streets are saying Keith Urban is the one who left Nicole Kidman...what is our plan @lesbians @gay men @australia

Omg the voyeur apartment on Little Lonsdale where you walk by and peer directly into the living and dining rooms is for sale. An institution! www.domain.com.au/116-118-litt...

THE MEME IS REAL

Great cereal aisle shot from Seinfeld (1996)

'It's so hit or miss': One year on, Il Mercato Centrale hasn't lived up to the hype

#nowwatching All Is Lost (JC Chandor, 2013)

FYI I now identify as a gaymer (I got a Switch 2)

I love when you see a gay guy on the street.

This is your regular reminder that the dividers in Twinings tea boxes make excellent scented bookmarks.

2,000 words into the Great Australian Gay Novel wish me luck

just saw a tiktok from a disney adult reading from On Tyranny and asking their followers to cancel their d+ and disney trips omg

This is a loss. RIP.

Playing Link's Awakening DX again and heavily feeling this old post of mine

Everything is so bad but Cole Escola has a Tony and Jeff Hiller has an Emmy, so a couple things have, against all odds, gone right.

“It does sometimes seem like the job of critical coverage — whether by critics or by polls or whatever — is not to shape the audience’s taste, but to reflect it back to them in some way. And that’s a very big change in what’s understood to be the mission of criticism.”

Was confused today at the movies when I saw the trailer for Edgar Wright's Stephen King adaptation The Running Man but then realised this is a different movie to Francis Lawrence's Stephen King adaptation The Long Walk

This ad about how great Google Gemini is ends by telling us how Ted, the protagonist and a big James Blunt fan, “found something he didn’t even know he was looking for” at a James Blunt concert where James Blunt is playing not “High” by James Blunt but “She’s So High” by Tal Bachman.

Went to NGV's Impressionists exhibition today which was not too bad, once I managed to escape the two influencers who had dragged along a professional photographer to take photos of them looking at everything

The Wizard of Oz is drawing 4,000 to 5,000 fans to the Sphere in Las Vegas two or three times a day. Fans are paying an average of almost $200 apiece…generating ticket sales of as much as $2 million a day from just the one location 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫 www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

Rubber-soled shoes were banned (Graydon disliked the squeak); Dunkin’ Donut cups were verboten (too gauche). And a signal task for his assistant was to fetch his briefcase every morning from his car, so that Carter could sweep into the lobby hands-free. on.ft.com/45YpapC

This is an interesting peek behind the curtain of some recent Hollywood PR wars. variety.com/2025/film/ne...